next on the agenda...

next on the list of things to prep for...food...now this seems rather obvious, but the whole thing is not as easy or as hard as many make it out to be.

First things first...store what you eat and eat what you store. One of the best ways to do this is simple. Write out everything you and your family eat over the course of a 2 week period. Every meal, every snack, every everything...this list is a very important tool for the entire system. As easy as this seems, you have no idea how much food you will eat over this time period. It is amazing how many boxes of macaroni or how much milk you really use until it is written into a journal.

The next step is the scary one...math...You see you are not going to store 2 weeks worth of food, you are going to need to store 12 weeks worth of food. so if you ate 4lbs of pasta in 2 weeks you need to store 24lbs of pasta for 12 weeks. 10 cans of tuna, then you need 60 cans of tuna...you get the point.

now here is where store what you eat and eat what you store comes into play. If not one time in two weeks did you eat pearl onions, then don't buy them....simple, but that is one mistake a lot of people make. you go to a store see a sale on sardines and buy them, but then 6 months later they still sit on you shelf...don't do it.

i am going to leave off on this...for the next 2 weeks write it down...we will pick up from here int he next post.

a preview of things to come...shopping for a 90 day stockpile, learning the dos and do nots of long term storage, shelf rotation,powdered milk and powdered eggs, and freeze dried verses dehydrated...


until then, may God bless and keep you and yours...